On Jan. 12, Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of American rock star and the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, died of cardiac arrest—once again arousing public attention to heart disease. Shu Rong, a senior British traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physician, reminds us of the need to be fully aware of the five distress signals of the heart.
Usually, heart problems are not taken seriously until after the onset of the disease. Shu shared the cases of two patients who initially came to see him for other diseases.
One patient came to see him because was suffering from pain in his leg. Shu found that the man’s pulse reflected he was suffering from blood stagnation, and recommended he get a thorough cardiac work up. After the hospital examination, it was found that he had three main blood vessels blocked, and he needed immediate surgical intervention….